COMMAND LINE MISSING COOLTERM CODE
I know, hard code fanatics will shake their fingers at me for this, and yes, it may be the lazy way out if you want to be a coder. The other extremely helpful shortcut is that you can copy/paste the code examples. I won’t build another complex project without this resource. Not only was I able to more easily read through everything and hyperlink out to some references, but when it came time to build, it was invaluable to have the quick/easy scroll/zoom ability. The book serves as a (mostly) complete guide to the project they built for the conference. One discovery – and this was also a first for me – is that a digital book on an iPad is 100% better to use than a paper copy when it comes to these projects. After looking over the project a few times to conceptualize what I was doing, I decided to spring for a digital copy of Alasdair’s book, Distributed Network Data – From hardware to data to visualization (cowritten with Kipp Bradford).
I ordered all of my sensors from Adafruit, and a Wireless Shield from Maker Shed.
COMMAND LINE MISSING COOLTERM SERIAL
As we will see, Uno and Xbee Series 1 are really all that is required to get this project off the ground for the home project builder.Īlasdair notes “The sketches should work just fine with an Leonardo, although they’ll need modification due to the Serial and Serial1 issue to talk to the XBee, at the Leonardo uses a software serial port to talk to the computer rather than the hardware one the Uno uses, see, and the comments there about the Leonardo.” The materials list indicates Arduino Leonardo and XBee Series 2, but keep in mind that is what they used at the conference because they were working with a larger mesh network. Of course, I started with the GitHub site for the project ( ) and downloaded everything. I’m going to touch on a few stumbling blocks here that will hopefully save others some trouble. Overall it’s been worth the effort.Ĭontinue to read a more detailed account.īefore I go further, I need to thank Brian Jepson (who was involved with an early revision of the SensorMote project) and Alasdair Allan, one of the original designers, who both turned out to be accessible and very patient with me as I got deeper down this rabbit hole.
This has proven to be the most complex project so far, with some firsts… It’s the first time I used Python, the XBee wireless network platform, and (despite social media overload) I even joined Google+ specifically to gain access to some more info on the project. So a sensor-specific project was definitely something I wanted to tackle. Using sensors in tandem with sound is an important part of what I am studying. Up to this point my focus was audio, but sensors are also an interest. I also thought it would be a nice distraction from my other projects. After watching the Distributed Environmental Data: On the Ground at the Data Sensing Lab video I was inspired to take on a larger project.
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